perl - With XML::Twig, is there a way of find a 'first_child' with a particular attribute? -

i've xml looks this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <dataset> <category>    <name mode="source">somename</name>    <name mode="destination">someothername</name>    <content>some text here</content> </category> </dataset> 

what i'm trying process 'category', , extract different name based on context.

i've tried iterating children - works:

use strict; use warnings; use xml::twig;  sub process_category {     ( $twig, $category ) = @_;     $cat_name;     foreach $name ( $category->children('name') ) {         if ( $name->att('mode') eq 'source' ) {             $cat_name = $name->text;         }     }      print "$cat_name ", $category->first_child_text('content'), "\n"; }  $twig =     xml::twig->new( twig_handlers => { 'category' => \&process_category } )     ->parse( \*data );   __data__ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <dataset> <category>    <name mode="source">somename</name>    <name mode="destination">someothername</name>    <content>some text</content> </category> </dataset> 

however i'm wondering - there better way iterating elements? can't figure out if first_child supports attribute search, or if there's method same.

use xml::twig's get_xpath method search matching values in attributes. example:

my $cat_name = $category->get_xpath('./name[@mode="source"]', 0)->text; 

by default, get_xpath returns array. passing "0", first element of array passed (which need , there 1 match anyway). then, text pulled out ->text. use , can delete loop.